Washing-machine.



PATENTED OUT. 17, 1905.

c. E. MILLER. WASHINGMAGHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12,1904.

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I y? a? m/qmfi CARL E. MILLER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed geptem'ber 12,1904. Se a N 224,184

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL E. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that'the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,

making a part of the specification, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal central section.

The present invention has relation to improvements in washing-machines; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents the tub or receptacle of the machine, which is provided with a concave bottom of the usual construction.

To the frame 2 or its equivalent are pivotally attached the upright arms 3, which upright arms are connected togetherat their up per ends by the handlebar 4. The upright arms 3 are continued downward and into the tub and are held in fixed relationship at their bottom or lower ends by means of suitable cross-bars 5. To the bottom or lower ends of the upright arms 3 are attached the dasherblades 6, which dasher-blades are inclined from each other substantially as illustrated in Fig. 2. These dasher-blades are for the purpose of moving the clothes designed to be washed upward by the upward movement of the dasher proper, and in use it will be understood that the clothes designed to be washed are divided and one portion located upon one side of the dasher and the other portion upon the opposite side, by which arrangement the divided portions of the clothes are alternately lifted upward and above the normal waterline and then permitted to descend into the water to be lifted again and acted upon, as hereinafter described.

Within the upper portion of the tub are located the pivoted squeezing members, which squeezing members consists in suitable spacebars 7 and the blocks 8. The bottom or under sides of said blocks are curved in such a manner that the bars 7 will be located in the form of a segment, or, in other words, said bars will present a convex surface.

The object and purpose of pivoting the squeezing members is to allow said members to be turned upon their pivotal points, and thereby to produce a rubbing efiect upon the clothes and at the same time to change the position of the clothes to a certain extent, so that when the clothes are released they will assume a different position from that last assumed at the time they were lifted, by which arrangement a different or new surface or portion of the clothes is presented, or, in other words, a rolling movement is imparted to the bunch of clothes being washed.

By locating the combined rubbing and squeezing members above the water-line the water contained in the bunch of clothing is to a great extent removed, at which time the dirt is removed from the bunch of clothing.

For the purpose of preventing the pivoted and squeezing members from turning too far downward upon their pivotal points the blocks 8 are provided with the upward extensions 9, which upward extensions strike the bottom or under side of the frame-bars 10.

The cover members 11 are located substantially as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and, as shown, their outer ends are seated under the framebars 10, and for the purpose of allowing the upright arms 3 to swing the notches 12 are provided.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a washing-machine, the combination with a tub or receptacle, upright arms adapted to swing upon pivotal points, the lower portion of said arms provided with a dasher, squeezing members located in the upper portion of the tub or receptacle, said squeezing members provided with rubbingbars located in the form of a segment, and blocks provided with upward extensions adapted to strike the bot tom or under side of the frame-bars, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL E. MILLER. Witnesses:

G. M. MoELFREsH, O. E. LYTLE. 

